REUTERS - Naturalist Peter Matthiessen, an award-winning American author who helped create the Paris Review and brought to life tales from the wilderness centered on his excursions to faraway lands, ...
In interviews, Peter Matthiessen always had to answer, in his correct, patrician tones, a question seldom put to other writers: Just what kind of writer, exactly, are you? The confusion was ...
That ghostly whale fragment can’t help suggest Peter Matthiessen as modern American literature’s Ahab. Not raging across oceans in search of revenge but scouring the far ends of the earth and its seas ...
“True Nature,” a new biography, chronicles the many lives and pursuits of the writer Peter Matthiessen. By Dwight Garner What was I trying to escape by making this dangerous trek? By John Kaag Peter ...